We are continually adding content to our broadcast system library.<\/p>\n
First, I find things on Librivox.org that look interesting.\u00a0 I have been getting a lot of good short-length pieces from a series of anthologies of short poetry and short stories.\u00a0 And from there I branch out to what sounds interesting to me or I may look up some other works which were performed by a particular volunteer reader.<\/p>\n
Each item comes as a zipped collection of .mp3 audio files.<\/p>\n
I have a little script which unpacks the zipped collection and then runs the loader program to put all of the .mp3s into our automation system.\u00a0 The script loads everything into a classification called ‘NEW’.<\/p>\n
After that I go through and check out each one.\u00a0 I trim the beginning and ending.\u00a0 Most of the items begin with a statement about the Librivox project, so I trim that off.\u00a0 And most have “end of chapter 1”, stuff at the end, and I trim that off. I classify the selection roughly by type (fiction, poetry, biography…) and by it’s\u00a0 time-length.\u00a0 And I try to check the audio level so that it isn’t too loud or too soft.<\/p>\n
In some rare cases there will be something about that particular track which makes it difficult to understand.\u00a0 If it is part of a short-piece anthology I put just that track\u00a0 into a different classification to look at later.<\/p>\n
We have about 1500 items in the library so far.\u00a0 Most of those are short pieces.\u00a0 Last night I spent a couple of hours and trimmed and classified about a hundred items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are continually adding content to our broadcast system library. First, I find things on Librivox.org that look interesting.\u00a0 I have been getting a lot of good short-length pieces from a series of anthologies of short poetry and short stories.\u00a0 And from there I branch out to what sounds interesting to me or I may … Continue reading Adding content<\/span>